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This is not nationalistic. One of the standard things that happens with Visa costs is reciprocity. If you charge my citizens a fee for a visa, then I'll charge
by Dobbs 10y ago
This is not nationalistic. One of the standard things that happens with Visa costs is reciprocity. If you charge my citizens a fee for a visa, then I'll charge your citizens.
What is different here is that the EU is involved, and the EU is many countries which generally act like a bloc.
So the US grants Free Visa Access to 23 of the 28 members of the EU countries and likewise those 23 countries grant Free Visa Access to US citizens traveling to the EU. But what about those other five countries?
To make it even worse a US citizen can travel to say Germany, not pay for a visa and then travel to one of the five other countries and since a Germany Visa is actually a Schengen Visa and is good for any of the Schengen area you don't need another visa.
The EU has tried to work with the US to fix this but the US has so far refused or ignored the request.
- areyousure 10y agoBulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, and Romania are not in the Schengen Area. It is not clear to me whether by "one of the five other countries" you mean that any of them or whether you mean Poland.
- kyriakos 10y agoYou can travel to non schengen countries with a schengen visa. At least to countries which have active applications to become schengen members e.g. Cyprus. It's just that Cyprus can't issue a schengen visa. Partly one of the reasons Cyprus doesn't get as many refugees as Greece even though being geographically much closer to Syria and Turkey.
- areyousure 10y agoThis appears to be correct, although note that one must have a double or multiple entry visa.